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Washingtonians, Emmanuel Movement and Pre-AA Books Recovery Collectibles

Washingtonians, Emmanuel Movement and Pre-AA Books

This collection features all books that were influential to alcoholics before the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous. The majority of these are original books from the Washingtonians and Emmanuel Movement are from the mid 1800s to early 1900s. Other books that you will find here are related to prohibition, spirituality, solutions to alcoholism, and stories about alcoholics. Several of these books were influential to Bill Wilson in his writing of the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book.

Enjoy shopping for amazing pieces of history related to the recovery of alcoholics in this collection of Washingtonians, Emmanuel Movement and pre-AA books.

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  • Habits That Handicap by Charles Towns - First Printing from 1915

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    Habits That Handicap by Charles Towns 1915 Habits That Handicap by Charles B. Towns. Copyright page indicates that this book is a First Printing an...

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  • The Principles of Jesus (The Four Absolutes) by Robert E. Speer - 1902

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    The Principles of Jesus by Robert E. Speer. Unstated Edition with a copyright date 1902. This book was published by Fleming H. Revell Company. In t...

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  • The Common Sense of Drinking by Richard R. Peabody from 1931

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    The Common Sense of Drinking by Richard R Peabody - December 1931. BOSTON, MASS: Little, Brown & Co., 1931 This is the Second Printing from Dec...

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  • The Common Sense of Drinking by Richard R. Peabody - 1933 - RDJ

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    The Common Sense of Drinking by Richard R Peabody - January 1933. BOSTON, MASS: Little, Brown & Co., 1933 This is the Third Printing from Janua...

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  • Habits That Handicap by Charles Towns - First Printing - 1915

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    Habits That Handicap by Charles Towns 1915 Habits That Handicap by Charles B. Towns. Copyright page indicates that this book is a First Printing an...

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  • John Barleycorn by Jack London - First Printing from 1913 with ODJ

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    This is the popular book titled John Barleycorn by Jack London and is an extremely rare copy with the original dust jacket. This is a First Printin...

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  • Report of the Executive Committee of the American Temperance Union - 1844

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    Report of the Executive Committee of the American Temperance Union - 1844 PLEDGE OF THE UNION. WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, DO AGREE, THAT WE WILL NOT USE ...

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  • Report of the Executive Committee of the American Temperance Union - 1845

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    Report of the Executive Committee of the American Temperance Union - 1845 PLEDGE OF THE UNION. WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, DO AGREE, THAT WE WILL NOT USE ...

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  • The Emmanuel Movement in a New England Town by Lyman P. Powell

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    The Emmanuel Movement in a New England Town A Systematic Account of Experiments and Reflections Designed to Determine the Proper Relationship betwe...

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  • The Power of Self-Suggestion by Samuel McComb - 1909

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    The Power of Self-suggestionby Samuel McComb, D.D. Associate Director of the EMMANUEL MOVEMENT August 1909 This rare 54 page Emmanuel Movement book...

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  • The Mental Highway by Thomas Parker Boyd - 1922

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    The Mental Highway LESSONS IN ACADEMIC AND APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY Thomas Parker Boyd Author "How and Why of the Emmanuel Movement" "The Voice Eternal" ...

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  • Addresses by Drs. Worcester and McDougall - 1926

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    Addresses by Drs. Worcester and McDougall June, 1926 Boston Society For Psychic Research This 23 page booklet is in excellent condition.   Emmanuel...

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    Asylum by William Seabrook from 1935

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    Asylum by William Seabrook. This book has a copyright date from 1935 and comes with the original dust jacket. The amazingly candid story of William...

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    Temperance or Prohibition? - 1929

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    Temperance or Prohibition?  This is a first edition from 1929 with the original dust jacket. About this book: “A BOOK of evidence indicating the Am...

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  • Signed - The Religion of a Layman by Charles Brown

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    The Religion of a Layman by Charles Brown. This book has been signed by the author on the first page. From the Preface: “This is not a commentary —...

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  • Varieties of Religious Experience by William James - from 1929 with the original dust jacket

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    This is the Thirty-Seventh Impression of The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James from October 1929. This bo...

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    Meditations on the Cross by Toyohiko Kagawa

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     Meditations on the Cross by Toyohiko Kagawa. This is a 3rd printing with the original dust jacket.  About this book from the dust jacket: “Few ind...

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    Dave Ranney or Thirty Years on the Bowery: An Autobiography - 1910

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    Dave Ranney or Thirty Years on the Bowery: An Autobiography - 1910 From the introduction: ”The autobiography which this book contains is that of a ...

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  • Grappling with the Monster or The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink by T.S. Arthur - 1877

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    GRAPPLING WITH THE MONSTER OR THE CURSE AND THE CURE OF STRONG DRINK BY T. S. ARTHUR AUTHOR OF "TEN NIGHTS IN A BAR-ROOM," "THREE YEARS IN A MAN-TR...

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    Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind By RICHARD MAURICE BUCKE, M.D.

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    Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human MindBy RICHARD MAURICE BUCKE, M.D. New Edition, with a New Introduction by George Moreb...

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    The Man Nobody Knows by Bruce Barton

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    The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus by Bruce Barton. This book is a title that was in Dr. Bob Smith’s personal library and a book t...

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  • Charles Towns Preface - Wreckage: A Drama in Three Acts by J. Hartley Manners - 1916 - Very Rare Recovery Collectibles
    Charles Towns Preface - Wreckage: A Drama in Three Acts by J. Hartley Manners - 1916 - Very Rare Recovery Collectibles

    Charles Towns Preface - Wreckage: A Drama in Three Acts by J. Hartley Manners - 1916 - Very Rare

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    Wreckage: A Drama in Three Acts by J. Hartley Manners. This book was published in  1916 by Dodd, Mead and Company. This is a three act play about t...

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    Two Years in a Tent by Faith Whitney from 1910 - Emmanuel Movement

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    Two Years in a Tent by Faith Whitney. This book is a first printing from August, 1910. This book features a Preface by Rev. Samuel McComb, M.A., D....

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  • The Sermon on the Mount by Emmet Fox - First Edition

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    This is the popular Emmet Fox book Sermon in the Mount. This is the rare First Edition from 1934. Emmet Fox was born in Ireland, in 1886 and passed...

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